Understanding LLMs
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What is a Large Language Model?
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An LLM is a Transformer trained on massive text corpora to predict the next token. The "large" comes from billions or trillions of learned weights — and almost every emergent capability comes from scale.
What you will learn
- Define LLMs and explain what makes them 'large'
- Understand what pre-training on internet text teaches a model
- Know the major models and their rough capabilities
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